Australia currently finds itself in the unusual position of being both in an opioid epidemic and experiencing a shortage of these critical medicines.
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Obesity-related cancer rates in China were rising at an alarming 3.6% every year between 2007 and 2021 while non-obesity-related cancers remained stable, according to the first comprehensive study published August 22 in the ...
Aug 23, 2024
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Sudan's health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.
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In the U.S., Hispanic women have been disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic in recent years. Yet they've been less likely to take advantage of PrEP, a medication that significantly reduces the risk of getting HIV.
Aug 15, 2024
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential for further spread.
Aug 15, 2024
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In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid-related deaths cut the nation's average life expectancy at birth by eight months, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional Health–Americas. The findings ...
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A case definition of market-driven epidemics (MDEs) could help address critical barriers to timely, effective prevention and mitigation, according to a study published this week in PLOS Global Public Health by Jonathan Quick ...
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In France, the majority of people with an opioid use disorder—87%—receive access to medication designed to treat it. In the United States, where more than 100,000 people are dying annually from drug overdoses, less than ...
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Nigerian health officials are issuing warnings over a cholera outbreak that has killed at least 30 people, many of them in the commercial capital Lagos, since the start of the year.
Jun 19, 2024
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South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease.
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In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population, and during a given period, substantially exceed what is "expected," based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the "incidence rate"). (An epizootic is the analogous circumstance within an animal population.) In recent usages, the disease is not required to be communicable; examples include cancer or heart disease.
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